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LOOSE LEAF BINDER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1 1, 1919.

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LOOSE-LEAF BINDER.

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. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 25,1921.

Application filed September 11, 1919. Serial No. 323,082.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DIRCK C. BENEDICT, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Bellingham, in the county of lVhatcom and State of lVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loose-Leaf Binders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to loose-leaf binders such as used, more particularly, in commercial houses for keeping record sheets in book form.

The object of my invention is to provide simple and efiicient devices of this character, and consists in the novel construction, adaptation and combination of parts herein after described with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, shown partly broken away, of a form of book embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a sectional perspective view of the binder casing member shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a similar View of the book with the casing member omitted.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 show ing a slightly difi'erent form of the invention. Fig. 5 is a rear end elevational view of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a sectionalperspect-ive view of Fig. 4.

The binder comprises a holding member 10 of a rectangular shape having a bottom wall 11, a rear wall 12, and endwalls 13, which is open at the top and also has an opening between short wall elements, such as 14, extending'from the end walls 13 at the front. 15 and 16, respectively, are bottom and top covers of stiif material hinged to strips 15 and lo fitting, as represented in Fig. 1, into the recess of the holding member 10 and between the wall elements 14 and the rear wall 12. Said covers serve to protect the sheets 17 formed at one end of each with a portion 18 adapted to fit into the recess of said holding member and affording extremities 19 engageable with the front wall elements 14 which prevent the sheets being removed except vertically through the open top of the holding member.

To secure the sheets and covers from being removed from the holding member I show in Figs. 1 and 2 a rectangular casing 20 constituting a member of the bmder. Thls member is provided with top and bottom walls 21, 22; a rear wall 23 and end walls 24 but no front wall and aifords a chamber to receive the other member of the binder and the attached covers and sheets by inserting the same thereinto from the front.

In Figs. 4, and 6 are illustrated devices which may be employed in lieu of the casing member, the same consisting of a strap 25 which is looped, as at 26, about the shoulders 14 in front of the wall elements 14 thence the strap extends from both of such loops beneath the bottom wall 11 of the holding member and also over the strip 16 of the top cover to cross as shown in Fig. 5 at the rear of the holding member. The ends 28 of the strap are connected by a suitable fastener such as a button 29, which is provided on one of said ends. retaining the covers and sheets in place, the strip 16 of the upper cover is desirably made of length and width equal to those of the holding member in order that it may rest upon the top edges of the upright walls of the member and be held firmly thereto whether or not the recess is entirely occupied bythe bottom cover strip and the sheets.

The use of the casing member 20 will be found advantageous, more particularly, when the binder is being utilized as a temporary holder for sheets.

When the sheets have been finally arranged in the binder and it is desired that they be kept undisturbed, the. strap securing here a strap is used for means illustrated in Fi s. 46 is preferable V as the strap ends may be secured together by sealing which willprevcnt sheets being abstracted without the mutilation or destruction of the seal.

What I claim, is

1. In devices of the class described, a binder comprising a hollow holding member open at the top and having an opening at the front of a length less than the width of i the member, cover carrying strips adapted to be inserted within said member through the top opening thereof, and a casing member having an opening at its front side to receive'the aforesaid holding member and afford a closure for the opening in the top thereof.

V 2. In devices of the class described, a binder comprising a rectangular hollow holding member which is open at the top and at its front is provided with an opening aforesaid covers and sheets in engaged reextending between two front Wall elements, lations to the holding member.

book covers and sheets provided With end 10 Signed at Bellingham, WVashington, this portions adapted to be introduced into said 11 1 day 05 eptember, 1919.

member from the top and extending to the rear of said Well elements, and a casing member adapted to be removably placed over the holding member for retaining the DIRCK C. BENEDICT. WVitnesses THAD. MGGLINN, JOHN H. DE MUTE. 

